66 Degrees . . . It's February

Yes, yes it is February and yes, yes it is 66 degrees. It's raining and we are under a tornado watch. Perhaps I should get off my computer . . . no, I am a dedicated blogger, and I will update because I should.

I feel like all I write about is the weather, but the weather is important, much like food. Yes, food. Right now Adele and Zoe are trying to figure out what we should do for dinner because they are hungry. I'm not. I had a bit lunch. In the Bishop Cafe. It was potato soup and a grilled cheese which I dipped in the soup and it was good, but it was a big lunch and I ate like three hours ago.

Anyway, they are discussing food. We have food on campus. 12 places to get food on campus. And we have 5 off campus locations that accept our food points . . . wholly cow, I totally went tour guide. I try to separate tour guide life and my life-life but, well, the two are so ingrained they are inseparable.

I was joking with another tour guide about tour guide Touretts. Like talking, talking, talking, Elliott hall, talking, talking, talking, 12:1 and it goes from there.

Anyway, well, stay dry if it's raining and stay safe if it's storming, and stay warm if it's cold and just take weather precautions.

Have a great one.

Pictures: First is me, in a closet, at the RV show. Second is my face. Third is the word "beans", in some beans.

Not Procrastinating a Paper

Woot, woot I just rough drafted my paper and it's not due until tomorrow . . . some of you may be thinking that because I just started my paper today, technically, I did procrastinate but really, I didn't.

Good gravy has it been a busy week. It feels like all my professors decided that three weeks into the semester was a great time to make the first "big" projects due. Paper in modern America, immersion story in advance news writing. But hey, I successful laid out my first full new paper page in editing and design yesterday. And I only had one dog leg . . . and it wasn't even really that bad. I just need to wrap it around some ads. But after I finished it, there was jumping.

You know where else there is jumping? Swing.

And do you know what the Swinging Bishops are doing this year? TerpsiCorps.

TerpsiCorps is a dance club on campus that puts on a student run show in the spring. The Swinging Bishops got invited to perform and I am excited. Practices have been crazy though. We've got about a month to pull the piece together and it takes a lot of work and sync four couples. But, we are going to be awesome and that is all the matters.

And I am going home this weekend. I am so excited. I've not been home since winter break, which was really on three weeks ago, but still, it will be nice to see the family and kinda have a break weekend. I've still got reading and editing to do, but, I look forward to doing it at home.

Have a great one.

Pictures: First is me, hiding behind some ice I pulled off Adele's car. Second is Redward, the cockatoo. Third is Adele dancing, at the bowling alley, after a strike.

Snow Snow Snow and It's at OWU

Well, as with most of my titles, the content is somewhat predictable . . . well, at least with this blog, it is.

It snowed.

It snowed a lot.

I like snow.

I like snow a lot.

The way the snow plows plow snow is they really like to push it off the roads and into huge piles at the entrances to sidewalks. Those piles, besides being inconvenient to those people who don't really like snow, are so much fun to climb upon and I climb them. They are also great fun to sink into and I sink into them. Lucky for me I have boots. Not having boots in an Ohio winter is silly. And I'm not talking boots with heels, I'm talking boots that you can romp in. Romping boots.

The date on this post will be Thursday but I am finishing it today, Friday, and Friday is my day off. So, I'm chilling on the couch after working this morning and I hear this scraping and cracking sound and the room kind of shakes and Jaz jumps off my lap and runs away. Guess what it was?
It was the half inch of ice and only-meteorologists-know how much snow sliding off the slanted roof my apartment. It was terrifying.

What else? I have decided that clearing snow off cars with the Trio of Doom is fun. First we cleared off Adele's car and then we cleared off Lola. Adele was going somewhere. I just wanted to get the weight off Lola.

Have a great one.

Pictures: First if the night of the snow storm and an intersection close to Austin. Second is Adele, clearing her car. Third is me, with a big hunk of ice-snow that I pulled off the top of Adele's car. Fourth is Adele and me after the car clearing when bad. Who do you think will win?

A Panel Discovery

Hi there,

So, whenever a discovery happens . . . OWU related usually . . . but sometimes not, I feel the need to share with you, dear readers. And this discovery, involves my blog.

Today, I served on a student life panel for the visit day that OWU hosted. At the beginning of the panel, we were asked to introduce ourselves, which included the activities we were involved with on campus. My turn comes and I'm talking about the Swinging Bishops, and The Transcript, and the OWL, and I get to my work in the admissions office, which includes this blog.

Two seats down from me is Will, a freshman who I am acquainted with. So, I talk about the blog and right in the middle of it, he exclaims, "That was you!"

To which I blush and say yes. And he went into a short explanation about how when he was looking at OWU he read the blogs and stuff. It was cool.

Have a great one.

Pictures: First, is the brilliance of Delaware, with it's -50% sale. Second, is me at dinner a few night ago.

Fiction and Non-Fiction; Acceptable Career Paths

In my recent return to lovely OWU, I have attended classes and made a few life-sustaining discoveries. No, I didn't come up with the cure to some disease, I'm leaving that up to the science major. Yes, I still do plan on writing my way through life, aka novel length fiction that blows the socks off of everything out there. But, in order to afford a nicer box, because just writing in general will only get you one that is about the size of a tv, I have decided to supplement with literary journalism.

Oh, now I've gotten technical on ya. If literary journalism is confusing, I won't even speak page design language. I think the editing and design class should count as a foreign language requirement.

Basically, literary journalism are piece longer than your average news story and bring the nuances of ordinary life out where people can appreciate them. Usually this involves the reporter immersing herself in the life of the subject.

This semester I am writing for the Transcript and I was going to do my basic reporting stuff again but then I had a revelation. Why not practice this literary journalism stuff. So, I proposed the idea, got the okay, and now, I am going to spend a week with a person on campus and write a piece about what they do, their quarks, their goals, all of it. And I am so excited.

That is just another way OWU is wonderful. They give me the opportunity to afford a refrigerator box instead of a tv box . . . (I really don't believe that I will write from a box. It's a joke that I have with some friends. I am going to be one of those writers that has a house. That's truly what I believe.)

Have a great one.

Pictures: #1 is Adele, le fellow English major and myself making faces . . . no wait, our faces always look like that . . . no we were making faces. #2 is the same night, my camera without a flash. #3 there is still snow and it is still cold.

Back to the Wu

Hello, hello and guess what happened yesterday?

Hint: See title.

So, now that I'm back, and now that I'm up and wasting time before class (which doesn't start until 2) I have made one determination.

It's cold.

Holy cow it's cold. And it snowed. It was snowing yesterday, a bit, but it snowed last night a bit more and when I got up I couldn't see the grass. And the trees are coated. And it's really pretty. Really pretty because I can see Monet Garden from my window and the benches are coated in snow and the bushes make a snow circle.

My favorite days are when there is snow on the ground and a blue sky above. I'm not sure if we'll get there today. Right now, it's cloudy, but it's a light cloudy and I hope the sun breaks the clouds apart and there is sun in the sky and snow on the ground. It would be a nice welcome back day.

Have a great one.

Pictures: First is the view from my window on this snowy morning. Second is Monet Garden.

09 Is Here and it Happened at Katie's . . . Again

Happy holidays and happy New Years . . . late, but better than never dear readers. Well, as most of you are probably aware, it is now 2009. (I'm sure that in some technical time keeping system I'm off by a bit but in my world it's 2009 so I don't want to hear it).

The gang met up at Katie's and we welcome this New Year much like we welcomed 2008 and 2007 and we think 2006, so just go back and read the 2008 blog.

Joking, I'll tell ya'll what we did.

We ate food, played cards, played games, took pictures, made a lot of noise, teased each other, and exchanged presents.

Oh, why don't I just defer discussion to the pictures.

Have a great one.

Pictures: First is Mike's gift to Liv, Katie, and I: Rose-Hulman t-shirts. Yay t-shirts! He even got Katie and environmentally friendly t-shirt. Woot environment.
Second is Katie and I in a wonderfully nice picture of the both of us that is now my desktop because I needed a desktop picture that wasn't from a high school graduation party and I like this one. Boo-yah!
Third is Mike, with my slippers, that he stole and that Olivia and I eventually rescued. It was kinda of dejavu-y though because new years 08 Mike also stole my slippers and he wore them. They still smell like Mike-feet.
Fourth is Sang Mee during a rousing game of Apples to Apples in which she smoked us all. I swear she was holding half a deck of green cards when the card fight broke out.
Fifth is the classic sparkling juice toast to a happy and healthy new year and I wish ya'll the same.